"The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off."

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Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

Zygmunt Bauman

#Bridges Quotes #Average Quotes #Pillars Quotes

“I try to convey this feeling of being innocent in a mystical state, being in a place that's new, seeing things with brand new eyes, for better or worse. I just imagine this little kid floating on a beautiful king-size bed over the city at night, seeing all sorts of crazy stuff happening in the world. To me, half the fun is all the stories other people have.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I believe I'll take off my colors for awhile / And just kick back and sing some blues...”

Source : Song: After All These Years, Album: Eternal and Lowdown
“Once upon a time... a long time ago... things that happened once perhaps but have been talked about for so long that nobody really knows. And underneath all the bits that people have added the magic swords and lamps they're all about one thing - the good hero fighting the giant or the witch or the wicked uncle. Good against bad. Good against evil.”

Source : Susan Cooper (2010). “The Dark Is Rising: The Complete Sequence”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
“I have exercise-induced asthma.”
“I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.”
“Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.”

Source : Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.37, Rutgers University Press
“Lastly, the ashes left behind, May daily show to move the mind, That to ashes and dust return we must: Then think, and drink tobacco.”
“It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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